#pile

If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something more subtle. The effect is something like a cognitive seizure, marked by changes of personality, hyperreligiosity (an obsession with religion and feelings of religious certainity), hypergraphia (extensive writing on a subject, usually about religion), the false sense of an external presence, and, often, the hearing voices that are attributed to a god. Some fraction of history´s prophets, martyrs, and leaders appear to have had temporal lobe epilepsy. When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to. ↗

— David Eagleman

#epilepsy #prophet #change

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#getting #i #ideas #imagination #just

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#down #pile #sees #tear #toddler

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#again #ambition #consumers #ego #into

When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff. ↗

— Joan Blades

#connection #deliver #experience #go #his way

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#books #everywhere #i #only #piles

I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside. ↗

— Freema Agyeman

#i #know #outside #people #piles

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#back #clever #come #driver #hit

When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts! ↗

— Bobby Flay

#drives #me #nuts #onto #people

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#architect #better #comprehend #easy #exactly